Travel agents all around the world together with swedish travellers have voted ICEHOTEL as the best travel experience in Sweden. The Swedish Travel and Tourism Industry Federation runs the TRIP Global Award gala every year where the best swedish travel experience is designated. 2013 was an extra prominent year, as winners from previous years again could participate in the contest. ICEHOTEL…

The Aurora Sky Station in Abisko is picked by CNN as one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights. ICEHOTEL and Aurora Sky Station offer package deals where you can experience both the northern lights in Abisko and visit wonderful ICEHOTEL.

ICEHOTEL only exists for some four months every winter, but during that intense period, people from over 80 countries around the world will travel to Jukkasjärvi to sleep on ice. But what is it really like, and how does it work?

For 24 years ago, the long and cold winters made founder Yngve Bergqvist look around for new ideas to use what was at hand in Jukkasjärvi – ice, and plenty of it. He invited artists to attend a workshop in Jukkasjärvi in 1989. This marked the start of a nearly 25 year long journey with the Torne River.

The sauna culture is flourishing around the world, and thrives even in Swedish Lapland. svenska Bastuakademin, the swedish sauna academy, was inaugurated in 1988 with the opening of Kulturbastun, the Culture sauna, at the open air historical museum in Jukkasjärvi, a stone’s throw from ICEHOTEL. The man behind the initiative is Pär Granlund. He tells us how it all started:…

Each winter, about 100 weddings are celebrated at ICEHOTEL, Jukkasjärvi. We met Eva Lundqvist, who is responsible for wedding arrangements at ICEHOTEL, to talk about love and passion in subzero temperatures.